The Digital Revolution has pulled the carpet from under the rich media middlemen and handed power to both artists and their fans. Praise be. When a suitable new business model has evolved both will benefit enormously.

J K Rowling is ‘not a good writer’ I have been told. What exactly does this mean; and does it matter?

A look at the different techniques supposedly employed by writers on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

Discussion of a fascinating article in a Canadian paper describing self-publishing successes

A rather pompous quote from people who sneer at self-publishing

Thomas Mann described a writer thus – and, as one who will agonise for weeks over the placing of a comma, I know how he felt.